Iran
2026
STATUSRetentionist
EXECUTIONS 2026869
SENTENCES0
- GOVERNMENT
- theocratic republic
- CONSTITUTION
- December 1979, revised in 1989 to extend presidential power
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on Sharia law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majles-e-Shura-ye-Eslami)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court
RELIGIONS
Shia majority; 10% Sunni; Christian, Jewish, Bahá'í, and Zoroastrian minorities
From the country
JULY 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rahmat Valinejad executed in Zabol on July 2
- JUNE 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 10 inmates executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on June 29
Iman Safari-rad, Mehdi Khlagaldi and 8 yet not identified
JUNE 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nasrollah Iliad and an identified man executed in Karaj on June 27
JUNE 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Sanjari executed in Jiroft on June 26
- JUNE 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jilan Nourzehi executed in Kerman on June 23
JUNE 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran’s Human Rights in the UN Secretary-General’s Report
JUNE 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran slams UN for 'unjust, biased' human rights report
It is the iranian usual reaction to international criticism
JUNE 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdulrashid Sahneh executed in Gorgan on June 20
JUNE 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Firuz Musalou secretly executed in Urmia Prison on June 20
JUNE 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdol Latif Moradi executed in Mashhad on June 20
JUNE 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rasoul Khosravi-Baboli and Gholam Eslami executed in Shiraz on June 19
- JUNE 16, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN Ali Ranjbar executed in Bandarabbas on June 15